The Greening of the Mindscape
The story is told about a kind-hearted amateur who raised butterflies as a hobby.
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Learning in Mixed Age Groups: How We Made the Transition
A school, like any other institution, is a complex amalgam of intentions, processes, practices and of course, people.
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Innovations in Education: Vidyodaya – an attempt to walk a different path
‘You are supposed to be teachers and you don’t send your children to school?!’ The local community was aghast.
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Issues in growing up – The need for sex education in schools
There are many issues related to the problems of growing up that we face in school.
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Creating an Atmosphere in School: For ‘teachers-who-are-learners’
One of the features of schools is that teachers are expected to do what they are allocated.
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Questioning Ourselves: Reflections on a Teachers’ Gathering
The Annual Teachers’ Conference held at The Valley School, Bangalore between 15 and 17 Oct, 1999, was an occasion for the coming together of teachers from the various KFI centres.
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Baptism of a Boy Miss!
The buildings were the same. So were some of the faces.
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From Brockwood Park and Yewfield: A new course on environmental philosophy and ecological practice
Find your place on earth, dig in, and take your responsibilities from there.
Studies of Biodiversity on Campus
Biologists have identified India as one of the top twelve megadiversity countries of the world.
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Nature Schools
All across Scandinavia small children are running wild! From Lapland to Jutland, you will see flocks of youngsters chasing through meadows and woodland, with mud-spattered faces and small rucksacks on their backs.
A School in the Forest
Every year around 2000 people walk up the three kilometres of dirt road, in rain and sun, to visit the gardens at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary.
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On Ethics in Education
The current climate in so-called mainstream education, both private and government controlled, indicates that it has reached a kind of impasse.
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The Subject of History
How I teach history—daily, in my high school classroom—is a complex affair.
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Krishnamurti and the Modern Mind
Of the great Indian religious philosophers born in the nineteenth century, Krishnamurti was the youngest as well as the most radical.
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A Space for Learning: An Architect’s Vision
The question posed before me as an architect is, “Can architectural space influence the learning process in a positive way?” or, “Can architectural space contribute to the personal growth of a child with joy, freedom, compassion and awareness?” From my experience in designing and studying a number of educational institutions from primary schools to postgraduate research institutions, and from various postoccupational surveys, my answer to the above questions is a resounding “Yes!”
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The Arts of Listening, Looking and Learning
Excerpts from a talk at the National Conference of the National Center for Montessori Education, San Diego, California, March, 1999As a teacher, educator, and speaker, Krishnamurti had a strong prepossession to awaken in people the ability to learn, and live full, intelligent lives.
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Editorial
The ground around is covered with dry leaves, and above, the birds twitter and hop among the bare branches.
Art of working together
Since education is the responsibility of the parents as well as of the teachers, we must learn the art of working together, and this is possible only when each one of us perceives what is true.
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Review of “Resurgence”, Edited by Satish Kumar
Resurgence is a magazine published every two months from Cornwall, U.K.
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Review of “Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody For the Last 13,000 Years”, Jared Diamond
Is history only a study of what happened’ and when, and what happened next?
World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity (Courtesy: Union of Concerned Scientists, MA, USA)
Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course.
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For an Earth-Centred Curriculum (Based on deliberations at a Workshop on Bio-diversity)
(Based on deliberations at a Workshop on Bio-diversity)
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The Language of Nature
To meet the challenge of the twenty-first century we need to buildeducation on the foundation of eco-literacy.
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Innovations in Education – EKLAVYA: A Report
The author has known Eklavya for many years through his parents and teachers, and through Eklavya’s children’s magazine ‘Chakmak’.
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The Post-School Programme
The question asked most often by visitors to the Centre For Learning is, ‘…but how do your children manage in the Real World outside, when they leave this school?’ There was a time when this question would perplex me – isn’t CFL in the real world just as everything else?! But over the last few years, I have begun to think more about this issue, and I can see that there is a need to answer such a question in depth and with seriousness.
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Learning to be a Teacher: Impressions of the Teachers’ Conference – 1998
Krishnamurti has often spoken about all our schools being one.
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On Redefining Education
It seems that more and more governments today, democratic ones at least, are claiming to have education at the top of their priority lists.
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As the Mystery Unfolds
Working with children on a project has been a most rewarding experience.
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Science and Insight
The greatest challenge facing a science teacher (I have been one for more than a decade now) is this whole matter of the student’s intuition.
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Reflections on the Nature of Insight
I would like to begin by thanking David Moody for writing his interesting article, thus giving me an opportunity to note down some of my thoughts on the nature of insight.
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Demystifying Insight
The following three pieces have been received in response to David Moody’s article: ‘The Insight Curriculum’, which appearedin Volume 2 of the journa1, July 1998.
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From Local Studies Towards a Global Outlook – A New Geography for 12-year-Olds
Geography began with the realization that there was another side to the mountain and other people across the sea.
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